The Student Union at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design suffered significant damage in a fire overnight. No one was in the building or injured in the fire, which is believed to have started about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Students at MIAD are on winter break until Jan. 14 and classes will not be affected. Upon initial review, the fire inspector believes the cause of the fire may have been electrical, according to MIAD spokeswoman Vivian Rothschild. | Jan. 2, 2013»Read Full Blog Post

Jim Gaffigan didn't have the fortune of being born here, but the native Hoosier did the next best thing and married someone who was.

Milwaukee is sort of a second home for the New York-based stand-up comic, not simply because of his family connections or because he's played annual year-end shows at the Pabst Theater since 2007. His style of stand-up - clean, soft-spoken, often deadpan, obsessive about food - seems tailor-made for Midwestern sensibilities. | Dec. 29, 2012»Read Full Article(2)